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UNISON leader Dave Prentis has warned that the massive 10 per cent price hike announced by the British Gas energy privateer yesterday will lead...

Yet another energy supplier, E.On, yesterday announced huge increases in gas and electricity prices to domestic consumers. It is hiking gas prices by 15...

COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte. It was...

THE TUC must organise a national day of action in support of the junior doctors’ dispute and our NHS, the Public and Commercial Services...

‘THE SUPPORT has been amazing,’ striker Peter Gleaves told News Line at the Queens Road Depot in Manchester yesterday, where Go North West bus...

Broadcasting and journalism unions BECTU and the NUJ said yesterday they are bracing themselves for the launch of strike action to defend jobs and...

ONE-THIRD of the UK population struggles to pay for food, with almost a quarter saying that growing food prices remain one of the main...

ESSEX fire chiefs are putting the people and communities of Essex at unnecessarily increased risk by notifying all wholetime firefighters they will not be...

A NEW government, seen as the most right wing and racist in Israel’s history has been agreed, sealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s return to power. Netanyahu, who...

Tory prime minister Cameron’s decision to veto an EU-wide treaty change over eurozone financial rules was ‘largely political’, Business Secretary Vince Cable said yesterday. He...

Angry sack-threatened workers from the HP Sauce factory in Aston, Birmingham were yesterday stopped from protesting at the parent company Heinz headquarters in Hayes,...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

FATAH issued a warning yesterday that the annexation issue is still a dangerously imminent issue on the table. In a statement, the movement cautioned that...

ISRAELI forces have assaulted the last functioning hospital in besieged northern Gaza, bombing it and killing children inside, according to doctors. Medical sources reported that...

Scores of health workers, youth, patients, pensioners and local residents took part in yesterday’s picket of Chase Farm Hospital, organised by North East London...

DOCTORS at the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh yesterday voted to stop the privatisation of the NHS, and voted...

THE Tory-led coalition is deliberately using Universal Credit to worsen the plight of poor families. A new report shows that millions of lower income working...

THE commander of British forces in Afghanistan yesterday said he needs double the number of soldiers in Helmand Province to cope with the increasingly...

ROYAL Mail workers are resuming their strike action tonight, furious at leaked Post Office plans to smash up their pensions. The massive Mail Centres employing...

TENANTS and trade unionists mobilised outside Lambeth County Court yesterday to support Marian Okanlowan who is appealing against the Guinness Trust’s intention...

OVER four million public sector workers are set to strike over pensions this November, after trade union leaders announced at the TUC congress yesterday...

Nearly 200 MPs, including former Labour ministers, have joined calls for the government to give nurses this year’s pay award in full, instead of...

FAMILIES failing to pay their rent because of the ‘bedroom tax’ are already being threatened with eviction, just weeks after it came into force. Thousands...

‘Did you ever discuss or approve a change in the rules of engagement for British police to shoot to kill, shoot in the head...

THE NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has...

EIGHTEEN months after the Grenfell Inferno over 600 people turned out on the Silent March for the Grenfell victims and survivors. A delegation...

THERE was an RMT call for a general strike to confront the Trade Union Act and all anti-union laws at at the TUC Congress...

THE Care Quality Commission has put a cap on the number of people who can be admitted to the ‘Majors’ section of the A&E...

Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...

THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...

‘CAMERON’S speech today, with the five fake pledges on the NHS, signify that the coalition government is going full steam ahead with the...

UNISON has condemned calls by a right wing ‘think tank’ for benefit cuts for all claimants living outside of London, and for child benefits...

JONTY Leff the Assistant General Secretary of the WRP told the News Line Rally yesterday that ‘Today at this 46th anniversary rally we celebrate...

THE family of a 73-year-old French woman injured in a police charge at a protest are taking legal action. Geneviève Legay fell and hit her...

UNISON leaders came under fire from angry delegates at the union’s National Delegate Conference yesterday, over their decision to call off the local government...

‘It is too soon to tell how far the disruption in financial markets will impair the availability of credit to companies and households,’ said...

‘Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide! Tamil Tigers – Freedom Fighters!’ shouted Tamils demonstrating in support of brave hunger striker Parameswaran Subramaniyan yesterday. Around 1,000 were...

THE UK’s current account deficit was larger than expected in the final quarter of last year, official figures have shown. The deficit in the...

A ‘NEW care model’ in Stockport, Greater Manchester, has sparked a 96% ‘YES’ vote for strike action among Unison members. The strike will take...

THE MPs’ pay rise plan shows a political class ‘wildly out of touch’, said Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka yesterday. Commenting...

The GMB trade union yesterday condemned as ‘dubious’ a leaked NHS report recommendation that patients with life-threatening complaints be kept out of hospital and...

Aircraft carrier USS Vincent arrived off the coast of earthquake-hit Haiti yesterday as Admiral Mike Mullen announced a huge US task force. Speaking at a...

TENS of thousands of farmers drove in a convoy of tractors yesterday into the Indian capital during national Republic Day celebrations as part of...

THE euro strengthened to a two-month high against the US dollar yesterday, as investors’ euphoria overflowed at the ECB’s plan to purchase bonds from...

Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, yesterday became the latest to announce cuts in the face of mounting NHS deficits. Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust...